pacwatch vs frece

pacwatch

A pacman wrapper which helps you watch important package updates. (by ouuan)

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frece

Maintain a database sorted by frecency (frequency + recency) (by YodaEmbedding)

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pacwatch		frece
	Project
3	Mentions	3
25	Stars	71
-	Growth	-
5.7	Activity	0.0
about 2 months ago	Latest Commit	over 2 years ago
Python	Language	Rust
Apache License 2.0	License	MIT License

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Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.

pacwatch

Posts with mentions or reviews of pacwatch. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-01-05.

Yay or Paru!!??
12 projects | /r/archlinux | 5 Jan 2022

I type yay in the terminal to use pacwatch which invokes paru.
What is a program that you use that's uncommon but essential for you?
26 projects | /r/archlinux | 4 May 2021

I want to be aware of important package updates but don't want to read the whole update list, so https://github.com/ouuan/pacwatch.
Show HN: Highlight package updates for Arch Linux
1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 18 Feb 2021

frece

Posts with mentions or reviews of frece. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-07-02.

55 GiB/s FizzBuzz (2021)
3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 2 Jul 2023

Neat tricks. Beyond BufWriter (which I'm already using) and multthreading, I'm guessing there's not much to be done to improve my "frece" (a simple CLI frecency-indexed database) tool's performance without making it overly complicated. https://github.com/YodaEmbedding/frece/blob/master/src/main....
What is your favorite programming language?
9 projects | /r/archlinux | 20 Dec 2021
What is a program that you use that's uncommon but essential for you?
26 projects | /r/archlinux | 4 May 2021

Something I wrote: frece.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing pacwatch and frece you can also consider the following projects:

cdhist - Linux shell cd history.

kitty - Cross-platform, fast, feature-rich, GPU based terminal

buku - :bookmark: Personal mini-web in text

zoxide - A smarter cd command. Supports all major shells.

pikaur - AUR helper with minimal dependencies. Review PKGBUILDs all in once, next build them all without user interaction.

jstar - A lightweight embeddable scripting language

trizen - Lightweight AUR Package Manager

ueberzug - ueberzug is a command line util which allows to display images in combination with X11. The user is expected to have knowledge of theoretical computer science. https://github.com/seebye/ueberzug/wiki/Troubleshooting/119e30f331799b30fb9594db29740685cb09425b

snap-pac - Pacman hooks that use snapper to create pre/post btrfs snapshots like openSUSE's YaST

fsearch - A fast file search utility for Unix-like systems based on GTK3

dotfiles - My dotfiles, utilizing 'pont', my dotmodule manager

z - z - jump around